News articles tagged with 'germanium'
Supercomputer unravels structures in DVD materials
— 9 Jan 2011 19:12 | TechnologyAlthough the storage of films and music on a DVD is part of our digital world, the physical basis of the storage mechanism is not understood in detail. In the current issue of the leading…
A new twist for nanopillar light collectors
— 18 Nov 2010 10:51 | TechnologySunlight represents the cleanest, greenest and far and away most abundant of all energy sources, and yet its potential remains woefully under-utilised. High costs have been a major…
Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage
— 18 Sep 2010 08:46 | TechnologyThe ability of phase-change materials to readily and swiftly transition between different phases has made them valuable as a low-power source of non-volatile or 'flash' memory and data…
Dark-matter search plunges physicists to new depths
— 12 Aug 2010 08:42 | PhysicsThis month physicist Juan Collar and his associates are taking their attempt to unmask the secret identity of dark matter into a Canadian mine more than a mile underground…
MIT researchers build first germanium laser
— 7 Feb 2010 16:29 | TechnologyMIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can emit wavelengths of light useful for optical communications. It's also the first germanium laser to operate…
New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices
— 10 Dec 2009 08:50 | TechnologyMicrochip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturising transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch…
Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
— 27 Nov 2009 08:04 | TechnologyA new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers…
Superconducting chips to become reality
— 28 May 2009 14:07 | TechnologyMost chemical elements become superconducting at low temperatures or high pressures, but until now, copper, silver, gold, and the semiconductor germanium, for example, have all refused…
Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
— 14 Jan 2009 09:30 | TechnologyDistorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. University of Wisconsin-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang…
NPL research shows there could be no end in sight for Moore's Law
— 10 Dec 2008 11:48 | PhysicsThe fast pace of growing computing power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced…